Board of Trustees

Malaria Consortium is governed by a Board of Trustees, which meets quarterly and for its Annual General Meeting (AGM). A Finance and Audit subcommittee monitors the finances of the organisation, meeting at least quarterly, and makes recommendations to the Board of Trustees. The Board of Trustees takes the major strategic decisions for the organisation. Every year Trustees are invited to visit programmes in the field to ensure they are fully informed about Malaria Consortium’s activities at country level. Day-to-day operational decision-making is delegated to the Executive Director, who, with the Senior Management Team, runs the organisation.

Our Board of Trustees are:

• Dr. Julian Lob-Levyt - Chair
• Richard Page - Treasurer
• Dr. Garth Glentworth
• Prof. Whitney Addington
• Dr. Geoffrey Butcher
• William Chalmers
• Roger Wilson
• Roger Cousins
• Ian Boulton
• Tim Armstrong
• Robert Seabrook QC
• Professor Melissa Leach

• Rt. Revd Bishop Dinis S Singulane (Honorary Patron)
  

Chairman

Dr Julian Lob-Levyt
Dr. Julian Lob-Levyt is Senior Vice President International with DAI, based in London.  Dr Lob-Levyt leads the development of DAI's international operations to become a recognised global company within the field of International Development.  As CEO of the GAVI Alliance between 2005 and 2010, Dr. Lob-Levyt led GAVI, resulting in the delivery of immunisation to over 250 million children, preventing more than 5 million deaths globally.  Previously Dr. Lob-Levyt was Head of Human Development and Chief Health and Population Advisor at DFID, Regional Health Advisor in Zimbabwe for the EC, led health systems reform in Cambodia, was First Secretary Health for ODA in Bandladesh and Chief Medical Officer in the Solomon Islands. In the 2011 Queens birthday honours, Dr. Lob-Levyt was awarded a CBE for "Services to Global Health".

Trustees 

Dr Garth Glentworth, OBE
Garth Glentworth retired after 28 years with the UK Department of International Development, latterly as a Senior Governance Adviser for Africa."Governance" is a composite of all aspects of public sector performance plus politics, law, policing, media-an ever widening agenda. He has also worked in South and South -East Asia and in Eastern and Central Europe . He has played a major part in developing capacity building responses to governance problems and in training governance advisers in DFID. One of the major concentrations is on service delivery especially in post conflict, fragile states such as Liberia, Sierra Leone and Sudan.

Dr Whitney Addington
Whitney W. Addington is Senior Executive of Chicago Metropolis 2020 and an Honorary Professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He has been a Professor of Medicine at Northwestern University, Rush Medical College and the University of Chicago and has published extensively on clinical chest disease, public health, and has a special interest in tuberculosis and malaria.  Dr. Addington has received a number of honors, most recently, the Alfred Stengel Medal of the American College of Physicians for lifetime service to the College and the medical profession. He has led People-to-People Ambassador Programs to China in 2000 and to Cuba in 2003. In 2006, Dr. Addington was selected President of the American Friends of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.

Dr Geoffrey Butcher
After two years as a science teacher in Nigeria in the 1960s, Geoff worked full time on research into malaria, initially at Guy’s Hospital on the possibility of developing a vaccine, then at various other institutions in the UK and Australia on other aspects of the subject until retirement. He is an Honorary Principal Research Fellow at Imperial College London and when not reading or writing about malaria, visits schools and adult groups to talk about it. He is also a volunteer at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, where the search for new antimalarials is one of their interests.

William Chalmers
William Chalmers is a Managing Director at Morgan Stanley.  He is co-head of the European Financial Institutions Group at Morgan Stanley, advising a range of European banks on a variety of strategic and corporate finance issues.  William also has a legal background, qualifying in the US.  William has recent experience in the charitable sector, sitting on the board of Community Food Enterprises.

Roger Wilson
Roger Wilson is an international development professional, who worked for DFID. His experience includes governance as Chief Governance Adviser, country programme management (Malawi, Zambia & India); public service reform in UK and developing countries, structuring project financing with a merchant bank and commodity trading in the London commodity markets. He now works as a consultant on governance.

Richard Page
After working as an industrial statistician to the Malawi Government, Richard qualified as an accountant with Marconi and H.J.Heinz. He then lectured in Business Studies before returning to industry with Fisons Fertilisers. His senior positions have been with Kafue Textiles of Zambia as CFO and then as CEO; CFO at Nanyuki Textiles Mills in Kenya then as Finance Director in engineering and manufacturing companies in UK. He is presently the Director of Finance with Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants and a Magistrate.

Roger Cousins
Roger Cousins, OBE was career civil servant, until he retired in 2002, with a wide range of experience in human resource management and development he has worked in a number of Government departments. After a spell working for the New Zealand Government he returned to HM Treasury where as The Treasury Overseas Allowances Inspector he was introduced to the UK Aid programme and as a result joined ODA where he worked on various country desks and also the  UN desk covering UNDP. In 1993 he became Chief Secretary to the Turks and Caicos Islands followed later as Deputy Governor of Anguilla he carried out successful implementation of public sector reform programmes in each territory. He was awarded the OBE in the 1997 Queen’s Birthday Honours.
 
Ian Bolton
Ian Boulton is currently the Managing Director of TropMed Pharma Consulting. He previously worked for 34 years in the pharmaceutical industry, with 19 years spent in Asia. He has experience in General Management, Sales & Marketing, Business Development, Strategic Planning, Corporate Acquisitions, and R&D. For the last 8 years with GlaxoSmithKline, he was one of the leaders of their Diseases of the Developing World Initiative. He has been a Board Member of the RBM Partnership, has advised the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB & Malaria on their pricing and product quality policies, and is currently a member of the Fund’s Market Dynamics Committee. He is a Chartered Scientist and Charetered Chemist as well as being a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, of the Chartered Management Institute, and of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene.

Robert Seabrook QC
Robert Seabrook QC is a leading barrister un the UK, wide ranging experience across jurisdiction.  In recent years he has concentrated on clinical negligence, medical disciplinary work and substantial matrimonial finance and property cases.  His forensic skills are frequently called upon for cases outside these areas such as child sex abuse, action relating to the police and medical crime.

 Professor Melissa Leach
Melissa Leach is a Professorial Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) Sussex, and Director of the ESRC STEPS  (Social, Technological and Environmental Pathways to Sustainability) Centre. She  originally trained as a geographer (MA Cambridge) and social anthropologist (PhD London). Over the last twenty five years she has been closely involved both in ethnographic fieldwork, speaking four African languages, and in extensive interdisciplinary research. This has engaged anthropology with historical, ecological and science and technology studies approaches, as well as working with foresters, agricultural and medical scientists. Her recent work has explored the politics of science and knowledge in policy processes linked to environment and health, especially vaccination, medical research trials and emerging infectious diseases. Patrons

Rt. Revd Bishop Dinis S Singulane (Honorary Patron)
Dinus Singulane is an Anglican Bishop of Libombos in Lichinga, Mozambique. He serves as the chair of the Mozambican Role Back Malaria programme which has provided a great deal of support to Mozambique’s Ministry of Health and other partners. He became an Honorary Patron of Malaria Consortium in 2006.